Aisha Iqbal
BBC News, West Yorkshire political reporter
Aisha Iqbal/BBCWhen Beverley Callon moved from Dorset to Huddersfield with her young son after a family breakdown, she hoped for a fresh start. Instead, the stress of mounting debt pushed her to the edge.
“I wasn’t eating, I wasn’t paying any bills. The rent wasn’t getting paid,” she says.
“I just didn’t know where to start.”
Beverley’s story is painfully familiar to thousands across Yorkshire.
As the cost-of-living crisis bites, Bradford-based debt advice charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) warns of a silent epidemic of fear, shame and isolation gripping those in…